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cab
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kæb/
- Rhymes: -æb
- Hyphenation: cab
Etymology 1
Clipping of cabriolet
Noun
cab (plural cabs)
- A taxi; a taxicab.
- Compartment at the front of a truck or train for the driver
- Synonym: driver's compartment
- Shelter at the top of an air traffic control tower or fire lookout tower
- Any of several four-wheeled carriages; a cabriolet
- 1877, Anna Sewell, Black Beauty
- Captain went out in the cab all the morning. Harry came in after school to feed me and give me water. In the afternoon I was put into the cab. Jerry took as much pains to see if the collar and bridle fitted comfortably as if he had been John Manly over again. When the crupper was let out a hole or two it all fitted well. There was no check-rein, no curb, nothing but a plain ring snaffle. What a blessing that was!
- 1877, Anna Sewell, Black Beauty
Hyponyms
- (compartment): crew cab, Eurocab, sleeper cab
- (four-wheeled carriage): black cab, hackney cab, Hansom cab, king cab
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
cab (third-person singular simple present cabs, present participle cabbing, simple past and past participle cabbed)
- To travel by taxicab.
Etymology 2
From Hebrew ??? (káv).
Alternative forms
- kab
Noun
cab (plural cabs)
- (historical units of measure) A former Hebrew unit of volume, about equal to 1.3 L as a dry measure or 1.25 L as a liquid measure.
- 1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, III.3:
- […] in the famine of Samaria […] the fourth part of a cab of pigeon's dung was sold for five pieces of silver […]
- 1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, III.3:
Meronyms
- (liquid volume): log (1?4 cab); hin (3 cabs); bath (18 cabs); cor, kor, homer, chomer (180 cabs)
- (dry volume): seah (6 cabs); ephah (18 cabs); lethek, lethech (90 cabs); homer, chomer, cor, kor (180 cabs)
Etymology 3
Clipping of cabinet
Noun
cab (plural cabs)
- (video games, informal) An arcade cabinet, the unit in which a video game is housed in a gaming arcade.
- (software, Windows) Alternative form of CAB; Clipping of cabinet file.; a compress library archive file.
References
- "Weights and Measures" at Oxford Biblical Studies Online
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Anagrams
- -bac-, A. B. C., A.B.C., ABC, B. C. A., B.C.A., BAC, BCA, CBA, bac
Irish
Etymology
From Middle Irish cab.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [kab?]
Noun
cab m (genitive singular caib, nominative plural cabanna)
- mouth
- muzzle
Declension
Mutation
Further reading
- Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “cab”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Italian
Etymology
From English cab
Noun
cab m (invariable)
- Hansom cab
Anagrams
- abc
Scottish Gaelic
Noun
cab m (genitive singular caib, plural caban)
- mouth
- Dùin do chab!
- Shut your mouth!
- Dùin do chab!
Somali
Verb
cab
- drink
Swedish
Noun
cab c
- a convertible car, one with a foldable roof; short for cabriolet
Declension
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taxis
English
Etymology 1
From Ancient Greek ????? (táxis, “arrangment, order”)
Pronunciation
- enPR: t?k?s?s, IPA(key): /?tæks?s/
Noun
taxis (plural taxes)
- (biology) The directional movement of an organism in response to a stimulus.
- (medicine) The manipulation of a body part into its normal position after dislocation or fracture.
- Synonym: reduction
- (rhetoric) The arrangement of the parts of a topic.
- arrangement or ordering generally, as in architecture or grammar
- (historical) A brigade in an Ancient Greek army.
Usage notes
Distinguished from tropism in that in a tropism, the organism is not motile, and simply turns or grows towards or away from stimulus (e.g., plants, fungi), while in a taxis, the organism has motility and moves towards or away from stimulus (e.g., bacteria, animals). Distinguished from a kinesis in that a kinesis is non-directional movement, while a taxis is directional.
Translations
See also
- kinesis
- tropism
Etymology 2
See taxi.
Alternative forms
- taxies
Pronunciation
- enPR: t?k?s?z, IPA(key): /?tæksiz/
Noun
taxis
- plural of taxi
Verb
taxis
- Third-person singular simple present indicative form of taxi
Catalan
Noun
taxis
- plural of taxi
French
Noun
taxis m
- plural of taxi
Latin
Noun
tax?s
- dative plural of taxus
- ablative plural of taxus
References
- taxis in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- taxis in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- taxis in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
Spanish
Noun
taxis
- plural of taxi
Swedish
Noun
taxis
- indefinite genitive singular of taxi
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